| fatslob-:O said: Yes they can! The biggest trading partner to the US goes to Canada, not China. While the US is the biggest importer of chinese products and services, they only amount to a total of 20% of the imports. China cannot simply afford to keep pissing off it's neighbors or NATO members otherwise they risk facing a bloody civil war with it's citizens ... @Bold Would you care to elaborate ? Just because the US has good relations with China's neighbors in Asia does not mean that the US will help secure his allies desired territory. AFAICT, before WWII it was Japan that occupied the South China Sea but since they lost they were forced to give up conquered territories and it just so happens that China was conveniently the first to claim it after WWII had ended. Before it's invasion by Japan, China was involved in ALL of the Sea's conflicts and claimed it as theirs for the longest time so if anything their only taking back what's rightfully theirs and should be theirs only ... China is big but I doubt they would want to face sanctions from it's biggest partners ... |
Well the US ain't doing anything right now and there won't be a civil war in China since the majority of the people there love their Government blindly even when they are breaking human rights or international law.
Now for the bolded part. Each country under the UNCLOS agreement has a 200 nautical miles exclusive economic zone. A soveriegn right of every country.
Sadly, China broke that law by building man made islands inside the Philippines exclusive economic zone. Vietnam and Malaysia is also having similar issues if I'm not mistaken. There is currently an arbitration in the UN about the so-called claim by China which China is not taking part in because they know their claims would be chewed up and shredded.
Edit: Wiki Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_v._China
This is what China is claiming.
If that is legal then we may just disolve the United Nations altogether.
